Re: memory address ranges (-var-create)

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > Would it work for your front end to create a varobj for "(char[7] *)
 > str" where it computes the length itself?
 > 
 > (gdb) p *(char[7] *) rl_prompt
 > $13 = "(gdb) "

That creates a child for each character, right?  I guess then the front end
would have to put them all together again to form a string.

 > If that's what you want, we might be able to come up with a smarter way
 > to handle the special string case, or do it automatically.

Insight seems to work even if you increase the length of the string with
realloc.  Could it handle this case too?

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob